Curtain-fixture.



No. 66|,87s. Patented Novi lsflsoo. P. s, JAcuus.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

(Application led Feb. 19, 1900.)

(No Medel.)

W/TNESSES UNrTnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS B. JACOBUS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF'lO JOHN MARSOH, OF SAME PLACE.

CURTAIN-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,876, dated November13, 1900. mutation tied Femm 19, 1900. semi No. 5,723. No model.)

To al?, whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS B. J AooBUs, a citizen ofthe United St-ates,and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Curtain-Fixtures,of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

One purpose of the invention is to so construct curtain-xtures that whenapplied to the window frame or casing and a curtain is i suspended fromthe bracket an unobstructed space for the free circulation of air isobtained at the upper portion of the window between the curtain rollerand the windowframe, enabling a person to draw down the curtain andlower the top sash, thus allowing ample ventilation at the upper portionof the room without necessarily admitting much light.

Another object of the invention is to provide a means for holding acurtain close to the Window-frame or in proper relation to it, althougha large space may intervene the curtain-roller and the window frame orcasing.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion of the window frameor casing and the improved fixture applied thereto, and

Fig. 2is a vertical central section through the parts shown in Fig. 1.

A represents a window frame or casing, and B brackets, which may besecured to the Window-casing in the customary or in any approved manner.These brackets are imperforate, and provided-preferably, with a verticalstraight edge adapted to engage with the window-frame, a straight upperor horizontal edge, and an inclined front edge, the front edge at thebottom of the bracket meeting the rear edge. Thus it will be observedthat the bracket is considerably wider at the top than at the bottom,and the Width of the bracket at the top is such that the upper por= tionof the forward edge of the bracket will be removed quite a distance fromthe window-frame, and in this portion of the brackets the usual opening10 is made in one bracket to receive the round trunnion 11 of the rollerO, while in the corresponding portion of the opposing bracket theordinary slot is produced, in which the square or polygonal trunnion ot'the said roller C is adapted to enter.

The brackets differ from others of their kind not only in that they arewider, but also in that a roller 13 extends from the bottom of onebracket to the bottom portion of the opposing bracket. Under thisconstruction when a shade-roller C is placed in position in the bracketsquite a space 16 intervenes the outer face of the roller and theopposing surface of the window-frame, thus permitting a copious and freecirculation of air at the upper portion of the room whether the shade 14be drawn down or not, provided that the upper sash is lowered to aslight extent. The side edges of the shade 14 lie close to the in- -nerfaces of the brackets B, and thereby form (the shade below thecarrying-roller O in the usual engagement with or relation to thewindow-frame as the shade 14 is passed down between the guide-roller 13and the frame A of the window. The bottom stick 15 usually placed incurtains vwilleffectuallyprevent the bottom portion of the shade 14 fromreaching the roller C, and thus the shade cannot completely wind up onthe roller, as the guideroller 13 beneath the spring-ca rrying roller ofthe shade serves as a check and prevents the lower portion of the shadefrom passing by it when the bottom stick 15 is in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A curtain-fixture, comprising two approximatelytriangular imperforate brackets having vertical rear edges andhorizontal top E Y y 661.876

edges, the brackets being provided at the at the topof'thewindowortheprposespeciouter ends of the top edges with bearings, a vfied..curtain-roller mounted in such bearings and In testimony whereof I havesigned my heid by the brackets out of proximity With name to thisspecification in the presence of 5 the Window, a guide device carried bythe two subscribing Witnesses.

lower portions of the brackets and extending between them and a curtainWound over the l FRANCIS B JAOOBUS' roller and passed behind the guidedevice, the Witnesses: side edges of the curtain lying close to the in-WILLIAM ELLAlvI,

lo ner faces of the brackets to form an inclosure GEORGE C. L. MAS.

